tomoyuki matoba

illustration of a Diplocaulus-inspired creature

Diplocaulus of sorts

super late posting for my october sticker club reward #art

White-tailed Kite, Santa Clara County California

Digital art of a Smilodon hunting a white tailed deer buck. Both figures are drawn as if they were petroglyphs. The Smilodon is pouncing the deer while the deer's rear legs twist to the opposite side of its body. This twisting leg direction signifies a dead or dying animal in Scythian art which also has influences on this piece.

One life eclipses another; Smilodon takes down a whitetail deer. Inspired by petroglyphs, cave art, and ancient Scythian art. It's weird to think that the whitetail deer survived the ice age and made it to the present but many of its predators did not. #art #smilodon #paleontology #rockart #deer

A young urban Smooth-coated otter found and nut and bolt that made for a bit of entertainment. Otters love to find themselves a little toy to play with.

最近ジオゲッサーの無料のやつ毎日やってるけど、2分じゃ国特定もけっこう厳しいな

Silhouette drawing in black ink of a cat sitting on a tuft of grass, facing left, with one forepaw raised, its head tilted back, and its mouth wide open as though emitting a cry. A circle of ink dots frames its head, halo-like.

It's #BlackCatAppreciationDay.
Granted, this one is a silhouette and it could theoretically be a cat of any colour, but...

Ink on watercolour paper, 64 × 89 mm, 2019.

Had the pleasure of meeting Yi Xu, a Shanghai-based children's educational book illustrator. She's working on some exceptional palaeontology-themed books. Starting with Paleozoic. I love the highlight on the lesser known animals 🐌🧵

サンショクツバメの成鳥を2日で50羽殺して脳だけ食べるオオクロムクドリモドキ怖すぎる しかもシジュウカラの脳食いと違って冬の餌が厳しい時期ですらないのに

FANTASTIC NEWS! I contacted INPRNT and asked about whether or not this piece would be allowable. I have confirmed it does NOT violate content guidelines and as such "Full Circle" is now available as prints and a sticker! #bskyNightMarket #prints #lion #art

www.inprnt.com/gallery/pala...

Pterosauria tree (black edition) ~ 🦅🌳
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I’m so excited to reveal the finished design, based off of vintage natural history illustrations with a gothic twist!
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What do you guys think? Do you have a favourite pterosaur?
#paleoart #sciart

Brown owl with prominent white “ear” tufts, staring forward while perched on a branch amid dense green foliage. It has some feathers in its talons, most likely from a bird it caught and ate.

A Crested Owl a @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica with evidence of its breakfast in its talons.

#owls #birds #nature

来年くらいには2024年以降の検索結果はAIのせいで何も信用できない、みたいになりそう

メイドインアビス、クリーチャーのデザインや生態の設定は好きだし、グロ耐性はたぶんそこそこあるし、救いのない話や後味の悪い話も好きだし、ナナチは見た目も声もかわいいと思うけど、それ以外にちょっとどうしても受け付けない部分があってはまれなかったんだが、世の中には平気な人が多いんだなあという思い いや唐突に何って話ですが

Digital artwork with a square aspect ratio. It features six highly stylized lionesses in a pride circling a slain male lion. The male is shown from top-down view while the females are shown from a side view. The lionesses have mandala patterns in their fur. The dead male lion appears skinny and old. The style is similar to a vintage print on textured paper. The color themes are gold and red. The bottom right contains the artist's signature and the the word "yong-gi" which is a Korean word for courage.

Unfortunately this one can't be made into prints for blatant violence (my work usually skirts it; not today), but I can likely get them made elsewhere if there's demand.

Did you know lionesses will sometimes take out their males when the pride is under intense pressure? That's pretty cool. #art

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

YouTube video by Animal Earth Documentary Saola and Serow in the Wild | Rare and Endangered Species of Asia

2013年から生存が確認されてない、そもそも野生個体の動画が撮影されたことがないサオラのこんなクリアな映像があるわけないから明らかに生成AIなんだけど（どうも90年代に現地で短期間飼育された個体の写真や映像を食わせてつくったっぽい）、技術が進歩して絶滅種・絶滅危惧種のそれっぽい映像がいくらでもつくれるようになったとして、保全にプラスになるとは思えないねえ 　
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYCQ...

I don’t have kids, I don’t want kids, I don’t particularly enjoy being around kids. But let me be very clear and as unambiguous as possible: I STILL WANT MY TAXES AND SPARE GOING TO FEED KIDS, YES, 100%, YES.

IWCのときみたいにCITES抜ける！とか言いださないか心配

Wonderful extinct pronghorn Tetrameryx #Sciart

Flat illustration from 2022 of owls perched on a branch at night against a dark blue sky. The owls decrease in size as they get close stacked in front, while also growing bright orange. The effect resembles a flame. The owls, back to front (large to small) are Great Gray, Great Horned, Long-eared, Screech, and Saw-whet.

Flat, graphic illustrated poster entitled "Red-Eyed Birds of North America" featuring shadowy gray-blue silhouetted birds punctuated by bright red eyes. 23 birds are depicted in total, some highlights being the Snail Kite, Roseate Spoonbill, Common Loon, and Wood Duck.

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ブラジルに勝ったの？ すごいねー

This art is a year or two now but I'm still really proud of it. Pigeons!! I sell these lil guys as prints https://www.lackofa.com/shop

"fighting dinosaurs" fossil reimagined as The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

The Kiss

#paleoart #berensart2025

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct The tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 is now 39 species – far more than for any other country

Extinction is forever www.theguardian.com/environment/...

来月刊行の岩波科学ライブラリーのカバー色校正が届きました。

瀧本彩加（著）
馬のこころ　人の相棒になれた理由（わけ）

お楽しみに！

もうちょい魚の写りいいのだとこんあ感じです まあ泥まみれですが

干潟で大きめの魚を食べるインドトキコウ A Painted stork eating a large fish on mudflats

インドトキコウがでかめの魚を食べてた

バイタクのベストを着せてもらってる子猫かわよ